Ferguslie moved joint top of the Cricket Scotland Western First Division with a terrific eight-wicket victory over Weirs in this rearranged fixture at Meikleriggs.

The ’Lie are now tied with East Kilbride on 30 points and stretch their unbeaten league record to three.

Cricket convener David Sturgeon was delighted to see his side pick up another win.

He said: “We maintained our impressive form in the league with victory against Weirs, a match played at Meikleriggs due to ongoing issues with the drainage at Albert Park.

“Weirs won the toss and elected to bat first, but our opening bowlers, Jamey Carruthers, with 4 for 27, and Martin McAllister, on 3 for 39, soon had the Weirs batsmen in trouble with some excellent bowling and Weirs were unable to recover their innings.

“In reply, the total of 126 was comfortably chased for the loss of only two wickets, with overseas professional, Keith Dabengwa on 50 not-out and David Stafford on 41 not-out among the runs.”

Things started to go wrong for Weirs in the first over when opener Derek Pettigrew was caught behind of the bowling of Jamey Carruthers.

When the score was six, a further two wickets tumbled, then at 32, another two wickets.

Then came in Weirs captain David McCaig who started to pile on the runs but he was running out of partners and he was finally out for 56.

Last man in, Richard Young, scored a spirited 20 to take his team’s score to 127.

Ferguslie began with openers Michael Homewood and Gregor Preston-Jones who started well, picking off any bad delivery.

But overseas amateur Michael Homewood was the first to go with the score on 15.

He was caught by McCaig of the bowling of Irfan Shah.

Gregor Preston-Jones followed soon after falling LBW to Shar for 16.

With pro Dabengwa and skipper Stafford now at the crease, they both took the Weirs bowling to task with the total of 128 reached easily – with the Dabengwa reaching his 50 and Stafford managing 41 not out.